If you feel the need to compete for someone's love, or buy your way into people's lives, wait and see what happens when you have nothing left to bargain with. If you choose friends by what they have, rather than who they are on the inside, wait and see what happens when your … Continue reading Love And Friendship Without Strings
Mindfulness
Be Peaceful Now
None of us ever knows what lies ahead, but we can each choose to find ways to be peaceful now. Now is the only time that any of us has, and we can make our own lives stable by appreciating its value. When we are peaceful, we make it easier for others to be peaceful … Continue reading Be Peaceful Now
White Ribbon Day
Love does not hurt others. #WhiteRibbonDay
Walking Kindly On This Earth
Thoughts on how each of us could take steps to walk a little more kindly on the Earth. A message with a few ideas for little things to do, which many of us (who have the means and the tools to read features online) might easily be able to put into practice. ~ : ~ WALKING KINDLY ON THIS … Continue reading Walking Kindly On This Earth
Appreciation Of Nature And Creation
A couple of weeks ago I penned a few brief words, as I pondered the ludicrousness of ignoring our Creator. The words are short and sharp and pointed, but they are not meant to harm, merely to open a shutter of light and let the awareness of magnificence in ... ~ : ~ It is … Continue reading Appreciation Of Nature And Creation
The poem “IF”, by Rudyard Kipling
IF If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,Or being hated, don’t give way to … Continue reading The poem “IF”, by Rudyard Kipling
May You Always Feel Loved – A Poem By Sandra Sturtz Hauss
I came across this beautiful poem today. It touched me and I thought it would quite possibly touch others too. I share it here, for all of us ... MAY YOU ALWAYS FEEL LOVED May you find serenity and tranquilityin a world you may not always understand. May the pain you have knownand the … Continue reading May You Always Feel Loved – A Poem By Sandra Sturtz Hauss
Ek Wil Huis Toe Gaan – An Ode to South Africa – With Translation
In my previous blogpost, I explained the writing of this poem, which seemed to write itself one chilly evening in Britain, during October 2013. I have now cobbled together a translation, which appears below the original here, for those who do not speak Afrikaans nor know the South African lingo ...
The Holly Tree Tales 